04/05 news: Coliseo results, Guadalajara walk of fame, Piloto Suicida

reminder (to me): I’ll be on Figure Four Daily this evening, talking lucha and whatever else (pirates? shows that go on forever? who can say). It is a pay show, so if you’re not a subscriber, you should go steal $7 from someone and sign up for a month.

That’s some elevation for Dr. X; he was filling in for Black Warrior so I don’t think that means anything, but we do get a Doctor vs Doctor battle. I wonder if they pay to keep a midcard rudo/tecnico on standby for the Coliseo shows, or if he just got a late phone call when they figured Black Warrior wouldn’t be able to go and drove over from another show?

El Hijo del Diablo visted Ovaciones to make sure no one’s forgotten about him and push for the mask match against El Santo some more (they even have a picture of him pointing at a Santo mask for clarity.) Both of them appear to really be selling that match, but I guess they haven’t yet found anyone to buy it at the price they desire. Diablo explains we haven’t seen him in Mexico lately because he’s been working on a show for Azteca TV, wrote a book and is about to tour the southern US. (Don’t know anything about it.)

Ovaiones also has a quick interview with Rey Tigre, who’s moved up a decent pace since debuting in February. Friday’s his Arena Mexico debut, something he and Mascara Purpura have achieved as newcomers and others (Crazy Boy for one, besides the TORY show) haven’t gotten. Of course, the big news about his match is Tigre Metalico, Tigre Blanco and Rey Tiger all teaming up; Rey Tigre says they’re a new generation of feline and hopes they can form a permanent team, feeling there’s not enough concept teams around nowadays.

Rey lists his height and weight at 1.95m (6′ 4″) and 100kg (220 pounds), which apparently means he’s grown 3 inches since his interview with Halcon, but that’s what Ovaciones will do to you. That does confirm what Robert noted about him being a larger guy compared to most undercarders (and everyone, really.)

Piloto Suicida, who works on the West Coast but has appeared a couple times on Chicago FMLL and Lucha Va Voom shows, suffered a very bad back injury which will put him out of action a year, if he can ever come back. (Suicida fell off a ladder in his normal construction job.) They held a chairty show for him at the NJPW Dojo this past weekend, and were able to collect $2,000 for his medical bills. If you’d like to help out, there’s an address to mail checks. (Thanks to Mikeinformer)

Guadalajara is going to put a Walk of Fame around Arena Coliseo Guadalajara; they’ll have their name and a picture on the sidewalk, basically. Initial inductees will be Diablo Velasco, Rito Romero, Rayo de Jalisco (Sr.), El Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, and Salavador Lutteroth. That’s a pretty decent opening class. They hope to install in time for a big show on 06/04, where a main event match of Santo, Demon, “Mil Mascaras Jr.” (hope that’s not right) vs Ultimo Guerrero, Olimpico and Atlantis is scheduled. Apolo Dantes was at the announcement, and stated that lucha libre is as big, if not bigger, than futbol right now. He may be slightly biased.

El Universal (and other papers; must’ve been a wire story) has an article about succesful lwomen in sports: Laila Ali, Mia Hamm, Gabrielle Reece, and Rena Mero. Probably should’ve given you a “don’t drink something reading this paragraph” warning.